Monday, October 17, 2011

This week we present a soundscape composed of clips from the protest in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district. You will hear a range of voices and modes of expression. For the best listening experience, we recommend listening through a pair of quality headphones.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and human rights activist, talks about his latest book Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile, and his latest piece for TomDispatch, a poem in which Dorfman invokes the voice of former Chilean president Salvador Allende to offer words of advice to Barack Obama.

Monday, October 3, 2011

John Feffer, the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about the US presence in the Pacific, the upcoming elections in East Asia, and what changes would have to take place for the United States to shift from a Pacific power to a pacific partner.